Gas burner



E. TURNER.

GAS BURNEB. APPLICATION FILED MAY 15.1913.

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GAS BURNER. APPLICATION FILED MAY'i5. i918.

Patented Jan. 31, 1922,.

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' Application filed Ma 15,1918- seriar vb; 234,775.

. (GRANTED UNDER THE raovrsrens or THE AGT'OF Marion 3, 1921, 41 s'rAr'. I..,' 13 13.

T all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ERNEST" TURNER, a

subject of the King of "Great Britain and. Ireland, and resident of Urmstomnear Man- 'chester, England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in or Relating to Gas Burners, (for which I have filed an application in Great Britain and Ireland, application 6,635, dated May 10, 1917, Patent 115,490, accepted May 10, 1918,) of which the following is a specification.

This invention refers to a new or improved construction of burner for use with pressure gas lighting and heating systems using a self-burning mixture (gas and'air already mixed), the object of the invention being a burner comprising comparatively 'few parts and lying invery small compass whilst adapted to afford all the advantages, Without the disadvantages, of the largerand' more complicated form ofburner heretofore employed, besides also allowingof its being used with existingpiping hitherto em- ?ployed withlburners using other than a self burning mixture, that is to say, those wherein the gas .and 'air are mixed in the burner.

' -A furtherobject is to provide a burner which when employed, eitherfor lighting or heating, allows the volume of combustible'mixture flowing throu h to be reduced to'a minimum Without impairing its efficiency and without any liability to backfire, perfeet combustion being maintained throughout all controls. v

- According to theinvention, the improved burner comprises two main parts, 'a nipple or connector and a burner head, the nipple fitting into the burner head and having lat- -erally disposedholes or passages constitutdirection, of flow of the, combustible mix- 'tu're, onpassing through V the burner, is

changed, and. whereby the velocity of the -mixture is subsequently checked until; even diffusion takes place, the burner head being so formed as to produce a chamber between itself andthe nipple whereby the mixture is pre-heated prior to reaching the burner orifice without considerable expansion of the combustible mixture.

= The invention will he more particularly described by the. aid of the accompanying drawings wherein: w

Fig. 1 is an exterior View of a form of burner constructed according to the inlven- .-burner in use.

the lateral passages. 1'

ti on adapted for incandescent lighting.

drawn to an enlarged scale.

ig. 2 is an inverted planlviewof said burner." 1 i "151g. 3 is a sectional elevation of the-same, an

Fig. 4is a cross-sectional plan View on the line 4, 4, Fig. 3, while Fig.5 shows said s J are'se'ctional elevations of two modified forms of theim'proved burner. F1gs.'8 and 9 aresectional"eleyationsf'of Figs. '6 and 7 sectional view showing the: invention adapted as a trial or testhurner.

'two forms of the improved burner adapted for heating purposes, and Fig.-' 10 a cross Figs. 11, 12- and l 3 ar'e cross sectional" views of the burner: head showing modified forms of the nozzle restrictor and Fig. 14 is a sectional-elevation corresp'ondirigto 7 but showing modified means :for controlling f Referring to Figslfl to th je' nipple or connector a in the form of a short hollow bush, screwed internally at CbfSO as to'be adapted to connect the burner to the supply pipe Z2 and also screwed. externally at a so- -as to screw into the burner head 0. Forming part of the. connector o is a small tubular extension cl constituting the' nipple proper,

such tubular extension being closed atone end and having'near such end a series of small holes 03. A These holes d? lie radial to the longitudinal axis'of the'nipple andconstitutethe high velocity jets-f The burner head a is also tubular and comparatively short, and'a't one part is screw threaded internallytozreceive the screw'ed' portion d iof the nipple, whilstat another ing. the high velocity jet, or jets whereby the part it is shouldered down at c to form the nozzle c i f Projecting into the latter is the extension 6 grooved or serrated as illustrated in ;F fgs'. ll

to 13 respectively.:- The said extension is'for i the purpose o'f 'conveying the heat of corn bustion away fromthe fl'ar'nel-(andthus extinguishing the same) when-{forja'ny reason the velocity of, the-combustible mixture is lower than'the speed of the propagation of the flame and thus "preventing baclr'firing and alsoi'serving tois'hapethe flame according to requirement. 1

:the improvedbu-rner in use the selfburning mixture enters the connector a and a passing through th'e high velocity jet orifices of the flow and as it impinges upon the side walls of the burner head 0 said mixture is evenly diffused over the entire area of the ,burner head in substantially the same horizontal plane as said high velocity jets, hence the burner nozzle or mantle can be placed in close juxta-position to the hi h velocity jets without any fear of the combustible mixture being delivered unevenly thereto as 1 is the case with existing burners in which tures.

the high velocity jets are arranged to deliver the mixture in a direction co-axial with the normal flow.v V

The. usual means for obviating such disadvantages is to insert an expansion chamber between the burner head and nipple of sufficient length to effect said diffusion before the mixture reaches the outlet nozzle.

1 The ;mixture becomes'pre-heated by the heat ofthe burner head and afterbeing so pre-heated the mixture passes to the burner.

By employing a burner of this construction with self-burning mixtures, it is found that it may be made. to very small dimensions (a fitting 12- inches long by e of an inch in diameter constituting a 100 candle power lamp) and further, that it allows of the mixture passing to the burner being reduced to the smallest volumei. e. until the flame is almost extinguished without any smell of unburnt gas. Moreover, it allows of the burner being used with exlsting piping for lighting or heating which has hitherto been used for the other than self-burning mix- Instead of forn'iing the member 6, as an extension of the nipple d it may be a separate fitting 6, see Fig. 6, carried by the crossbar 6 secured within the burner head.

- In arranging the lateral holes however at a short distance above the closed end of the nipple, the latterserv'es as a dust trap. Also if. desired provision may be made to regulate the amount of combustible mixture flowing through the openings. and this may be convenientlyefi'ected as illustrated in Fig. 7, wherein a rotatable sleeve f or sliding plunger is placedaround the nipple, said sleeve having radial holes formed therein to correspond with those in the nipple and being actuated from the exterior through the spindie 9, which is provided with a crank arm 9' to engage the projection f on the sleeve f. Insteadof the rotatable sleeve f a slidably arranged sleeve may be used see Fig. 14.

, When the burner is used for lighting, provision such as the groove 0 or the like, is made upon the exterior. of the burner head (for detachably supporting an incandescent mantle. I

Fig. 8 shows the invention applied to a ond nipple also having high velocity jets,

formed therein at substantially right angles to the normal direction of the flow ofthe mixture. Said auxiliary nipple constitutes a further safeguard against anyliability of the burner to back-fire.

When it is'desired to use the improved burner as a test burner, i. e. to see if the gas and air are pro-mixed in the right proportions to constitute an oxidizing, reducing or neutral flame as desired, a tubular fitting Z (see Fig. 10) is attached to one of the burner nozzles c at a convenient part of the system, bysuitable means such as the grub screw m, bayonet slot or the like may be used. The fitting Z- is slotted at Z and the edges of said slot calibrated as shown, so that by observing the height of the inner cone of the flame the character of said flame can be gauged and if necessary regulated by adjusting the proportionate volumes of air and gas fed to the installation.

What I claim is 1. Burners for use in gas lighting and heating systems using a self-burning mixture comprising an outer tubular body part constituting a casing having a burner orifice at one end, a central heat absorblng core located in the orifice around which the coming high velocity jets adapted to project the combustible mixture at right angles to the normal direction of flow, said nipple having a central heat absorbing extension projecting into the burner nozzle, substantiallyas described.

3. A burner for self-burning mixtures 'comprising a body part formed with a burner nozzle, a nipple within the body hav ing'high velocity jets adapted to project the combustible mixture at right angles to the normal direction of flow said nipple having a hollow heat absorbing extension projecting into the burner nozzle, substantially as described.

4:. Burners for us in gas lighting and heatburner nozzle, a nipple within the body having systemsusing a self-burning mixture comprisingan outer tubular body part con-" stituting a casing having a burner orifice at one end, a central heat absorbing core located in the orifice around which the combustible gases pass, a nipple Within the easing communicating with the fuel supply and having outlet passages constituting high Velocity jets arranged substantially at right angles to the normal direction of the flow of the combustible mixture, the cylindrical burner having a tubular extension poyided with a sight opening marked along the edge a to afiord constants for comparingthe char acter of the flame With standard measure 15 ments, substantially as described.

In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two Witnesses."

V ERNES T TURNER. Witnesses: V v

HENRY JUNoA,

FRED J. MEREDI H. 

